Grasshopper -> Sverchok

I have been using Rhino-Grasshopper in my design workflow for more than a decade. I also have been fascinated by free and open-source software. Nonetheless, I never put enough effort to include it in my daily work. Since 2019, I have started changing my environment to GNU/Linux and adapting my workflow. However, I still using Rhino-Grasshopper in my work as a tutor at the University. After too much try-and-error, I found a workaround that makes it possible to run Rhino-Grasshopper in my machine for Uni classes.

Hello Sverchok

Nowadays, Parametric and Generative Design is getting popular. There are available several pieces of software developed by different companies, such as Rhino/Grasshopper (McNeel), Revit/Dynamo (Autodesk), Archicad/Param-o (Graphisoft), Sketchup/Viz-Pro (Trimble), Microstation/Generative Components (Bentley). However, almost all options are proprietary software. We have a great free option for those computational design software. It is a plug-in for the well-known Blender called Sverchok. This tutorial is a brief introduction to Sverchok. The examples will be more AEC related, but can the general principles explained can be applied in other fields as well.

Extreme Territories Tutorials

In 2020, I worked as a tutor at University of Adelaide teaching GIS and Grasshopper at Landscape Architecture Studio called Extreme Territories, in which I help to create some tutorials that the students could follow in a Webpage. It is a series of tutorials on Parametric Design using Grasshopper and QGIS for landscape architecture. The tutorials are available in this link.